Given the potential influence of organizational communication and management control on the speed of strategic change, how to manage the speed of strategic change is investigated. Based on relevant theories, a conceptual model and corresponding hypothesizes are established and tested empirically by a sample of 585 Chinese firms. Analysis results show that organizational communication will promote the speed of strategic change, and firms in which information communication is emphasized will establish both strategic control and financial control simultaneously. However bureaucratic organizations tend to choose financial control; the strategic control will hinder the fast enforcement of strategic change, while the financial control will promote the rapid implementation of the strategic change.